What is the difference between Art and Propaganda?

Propaganda is about the end result. Art is about a journey.

Q:

What is worship?

How important is it?

What was God up to when He created the Earth? What is purpose now, as it is still in spin?

Question:

What is the role of artists in the church?

Installment Twenty Nine...

"The task of the artist is to sense more keenly than others the harmony of the world, the beauty and the outrage of what man has done to it, and poignantly, to let people know. Art warms even an icy and depressed heart, opening it to lofty, personal experience. By means of art we are sometimes sent dimly, briefly, revelations unattainable by reason, like that little mirror in the fairy tales. Look into it and you will see not yourself but for a moment, that which passes understanding, a realm to which no man can ride or fly and for which the soul begins to ache."

(From Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s 1978 Novel lecture on literature)

The Word Part Two

"At the sound of their voices the doorposts and thresholds shook and the temple was filled with smoke.
"Woe to me!" I cried. "I am ruined!" For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of Hosts."

(Isaiah 6:4-5)

Cursing and Such

I ran across a passage in Scripture today that I think illustrates the two-sidedness of effective communication quite well:

"If a man loudly blesses his neighbor early in the morning,
it will be taken as a curse."

(Proverbs 27:14)

In other words, communication, for better or for worse, has two parts: (1) What I Say, and (2) What You Hear. A well-meaning Christian filmmaker (to bring the lesson home) may make a film in which he has poured everything he knows about the Gospel in an attempt to convey God's "I love you!" to the world, but, if what the world hears is "I hate you!", then our man's communication has failed, and he must try again.

This is where the problem comes in: It does not seem that Christians are especially willing to start again. If the track record of the Christian Music industry is any indication of the state of Christianity in general, then we can assume that when communication breaks down, the well-meaning artists will blame it on either persecution or the world's spiritual blindness. As concerns the first...

blah blah blah...

Who wrote all this? And what's he doing about it? Is HE making any effort to start over? I wish he stop talking so much and just start DOING something.

The Word Part One

An honest answer is like a kiss on the lips.

Proverbs 24:26

Communication According to God (The Word)

I've decided to start up a series that would be kin to my "Installments" quotes over at my other blog; there would, however, be two differences (1) All quotes would relate to communication, and (2) All quotes would be from the Bible. My first one will be posted soon. Hey, if you're wonder what in the would such and such a quote has to do with communication then please ask! I love talking about this subject and would love to be pushed into a further exploration of truth and such by your questioning. Okay, expect the first one soon.